CVE-2021-26376 Denial of service in Athlon™ Series

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

Insufficient checks in AMD SMU FeatureConfig allow reenabling features, potentially causing denial of resources or service.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2021-26376?

CVE-2021-26376 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Amd Epyc 7232p Firmware, published on 11 May 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Insufficient checks in System Management Unit (SMU) FeatureConfig may result in reenabling features potentially resulting in denial of resources and/or denial of service.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-26376?

It affects 83 products.

Products include Amd Epyc 7232p Firmware, Amd Epyc 7252 Firmware, Amd Epyc 7262 Firmware, Amd Epyc 7272 Firmware, Amd Epyc 7282 Firmware, Amd Epyc 72f3 Firmware and 77 more.

How do I fix CVE-2021-26376?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2021-26376 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-26376 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Amd Epyc 7232p Firmware vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-vg73-hfwm-24qf.

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